Objectives

The objective of this lab is to learn how to use Git to manage you project files and colabolrate with others.

Get Git

Windows OS

If you're on Windows, download the GitHub Desktop, from here which includes Git, and use the Git Shell for your terminal.

Mac

You can install Git automatically. To do this, open the Terminal application from spotlight and type git. This will prompt Git to install the rest of the command line tools for Git. This should only take a few minutes. It will ask if you would like to download Xcode, which you can ignore.

Linux

You can use the basic package-management tool that comes with your distribution. For Fedora use:

$ sudo yum install git-all

For Debian-based distributions use:

$ sudo apt-get install git-all

Get Git-It!

git-it is a Desktop App. Please go here and follow the instructions for your OS.

NOTE: You only need to complete the tutorial up to the Remote Control step.